[3][6] During the 1990s, he smuggled Pez dispensers into the USA from Eastern Europe and made millions of dollars and butted heads with a Pez USA executive called the "Pezident" who controlled what dispensers came into the US.

Glew, in a series of trips to European Pez factories, purchased millions of knockoff dispensers.

[7] Because the Pez company doesn’t verify through US Customs, Glew could take his illegal dispensers through the airport.

[3] The directors Amy and Bryan Storkel worked closely with Jim Blaine of Hartland, Michigan, who owns one of the largest Pez collections in the world and has held a large annual Pez convention in Metro Detroit since 2016.

[3] He said "You watch this movie and in the end you realize, it's a love story about Glew and his wife, Kathy."